The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-04

it break up the democratic party ?"
.'Did it bring woman suffrage
ibid it unite church and State ~
"What about the grass growing in
the streets of Atlanta P"
His replies brought down TIE house.
A number of intelligent men who came
TO hear that address rs anti-prohibi-
tionists went away confirmed prohlbi-
tionsts. He read n telegram received
that day. certifying the business pros
perity and the boom OF Atlanta. and
her answering devotion to prohibi-
ton
He declared that the jug trade-all
Of twas not equal to one fashionable
open saloon. How forcible in this con-
nection is the following logic employed
by the women. in their lady-lke. re-
spectful appeal to the brewers, distill-
ers, rectiiiers. wholesale dealers and
saloon-kecpers:
ave are perfectly aware of your claim
that prohibition doesn't prohbit;' but in
opposition TO 1t we adduce The statement OF
| Peter Lieber. former president OF the
Brewers Congress, who said at the Indian
apolis session of that body: Gentlemen.
| the history of prohibition is a history Of
success" and the admissions OF the Chicago
regular col respondent of B0nford's Wine
and Spirit Circular of Feb. 25th, in which
he states that the retrograde movement in
the trade is due to prohibitory legislation
! He further says:
80 We find Michigan, Tennessee, West
Virginia and other States determined to
submit to vote of the PEOPLE prohibitory
amendments which, If they become laws.
will result in a great loss Of accounts and
profitable trade TO the distllers and whole
sale dealers and also seriously interfere with
the consumption Of goods and brand as
outlaws all engaged in their SALE
I'VE ask lift is likely that after 30 years
trial. the people OF Maine, by vote of
three to one, would have grounded
prohibition in their organic law, If it did
not prohibit:
"fhat license laws are what you desire,
Is proved by the follew;pE Dlonk in your
platform Chicago cc0sr'.;ln, October, |
1886:
go Resolved, That We are Ia'teTaN!. OPP |
posed to prohibition, general or local
60 Resolved, that we endorse the license |
! system, and favor the enactment of laws,
by the States, because that will not result |
IN monopoly, but will give to reputable cili-
zens the right to sell wine, malt and spirit
uous liquors.
Whatever you favor we must condemn,
and steadfastly antagonize your principle
of lcense-wbereyer we encounter it-by |
the principle of prohibition. For we find
that you do not hesitate TO eyadc every
mitigating feature of the license laws; but
having paid your fee, you proceed to sell 10
drunkards, minors, and on the Sabbath day.
Hence. license laws are more difficult of en-
iorcement than prohibitory laws, which
make the presence Of a saloon and the liquor
itself swift witness against him who in
vests his money In them.
Common sense alone would suggest |
to any thinking mind that the $1,000,
900 provided by their Protective Asso-
citation last October in Chicago, the |
session of the same body now in Gin
cinnati, and the statement in Bont-
forts Wine and Spirit Circular, calling
upon saloon keepers tc contribute, II
needed, " millions of dollars 10 this
association for fighting prohibition
this can prove but one thing: That
prohibition does prohibit.
Carson tells OF ansidiot boy following
q Ion all the way from Birth IN
t...p ng to see if the big hiud-wheel
would catch the little fore-whcel
Idiot as he was. he had an GRAND
though "a fools errand."
But the Anheuser Busch Brewing
company, not only acts contrary TO all
business principles, but has not even a
fools erraud in sending $4,000 10
Texas t, defeat prohibition. if prohibi-
ton does not prohibit. Whatever you
may say of these liquor men, they are
not fools. They know what they are
about. They would not furnish the
enormous funds necessary TO get up
the Dallas convention for the 4th III
May, and to run this campaign just
for fun. On the 18th of March,, 1872,
julius Freiburg, president, issued from
the headquarters Of manufacturers
and dealers in dealersn spirituoas and
Malt liquors ASSOCIATION of Cincin-
natti and vicinity" his famous circular
calling for organizations to stop the
damage done the trade by the enforce
ment of the liquor laws"
In the 18th annual conference of the
Brewers held the same year, among
other things, they resolved "lhat soon
er vote for any of the, apostles Of
bigotry and intolerance, who sought TO
destroy prohbitory laws their hard
earned fruits. they would wave all poll
tical predictions.
In the United States Brewers asso-
citation held in Cincinnati June, 1875.
they resolved 'to oppose. resist and re-
peal by every possible measure re
s,rictive and prohibitory enactments,"
and TO oppose ''all politicians who
favored prohibitory enactments."
MIR. Louis Schade. OF Washington,
ID. c their special agent in Washing
ton. in an address before the conven-
ton complained loudly of 'ihe injury
received in temperance states"-that